Slimebeast on 10 May 2009
| EaglesEye379 said: @Slimebeast Its not impossible at all and you need to catch up with the times. If you still dont believe any of us, hit the link to the annual report and go read yourself. No, its not $500 per 360 obviously, it includes software, accessories, Xbox Live, and as much as Games for Windows suck, they still make money. If I remember correctly, there was a good report recently that Xbox Live alone is over $1bn per year. To give more perspective, the total 9-month revenue of all MS combined is $45bn (so $5bn is not hard to believe at all). This quarter for 3 months, the total MS revenue is $13.6bn (of which $1.5bn is EDD and if 77% holds again, total 360/PC is $1.1bn). And anyway, these are calculated mathematically or published numbers. Are you doubting these numbers because you are comparing it to Sony? Well you cant really do that because that was so long ago and the game industry is very different now. |
I could say many things but let me say just this:
If it was a common knowledge that u could see in MS financial reports how big % share of the EDD revenue consists of gaming revenue, don't you think we would have heard that earlier? MS gaming/Xbox revenue has always been the big mystery, because it's been hidden in EDD. This is the first time I hear someone claim that they know how big is the revenue from MS gaming. And why is it the first time? Because it's a misunderstanding of the '$50 million is 1%' number. You have never been able to derive the gaming revenue in thse reports before, and you think we all of a sudden can, and this guy (OP) found it out?
No no.
